Well most likely build but aren’t opposed to buying (inventory is so low in our area however).  

Providing nice affordable housing is so important!

SEO is so much more complicated than it used to be.

Every submarket/micromarket is so unique, it's hard to know what your's can support when it comes to retail, and what it would be like to deal with those types of tenants, especially small business owners who may operate on a razor thin margin, like most food/coffee businesses do. 

If the LA opportunity is so good, take on a minority partner.

Sounds like your offer for cash is so far below his asking price, that he will likely decline...but cant hurt to offer i guess.

Speculation is always a key element as well, you cannot be afraid to go for the B/C neighborhood when the marketplace such as the bay area, is so volatile. 

One outside the city is great, but the one located in the city is so terrible many landlords won't accept tenants with vouchers from it.In Detroit, it's a mix.

And when you finally decide to get serious, she will disappear because the reason she stopped paying you is so she could save up money for the next sucker. 

It is so cringe.